Lost Planet demo on PSN not functional

Dont bother downloading the latest demo of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition just yet. Due to some kind of server error, the online "only demo" is not able to connect to any online server, not even ones you host yourself! Hopefully Capcom will respond asap and give the PS3 owners a decent working demo.

READ THE F'ING FORUM POSTS! Of course there has been no "official" response yet the the demo not working, it just was made available like 3 hours ago but hundreds of people cannot connect to play it, including myself, so that makes it a viable story and thats where I come from with my description

I downloaded the demo from the Japanese store and it works. I played about 15-20 matches within the past 2 days. It usually works for me when I hit the select button to refresh the lobby screen and then you join rooms that are 1/8. And I also hosted about 3 games. Within 2-3 minutes you get 8 people who joined and you just hit start to begin the game.

Yeah, I tried for about a half hour before deleting it. "Connection failed" or "Room is full" every time. Got into one game eventually, but it never started up (idle host?). Creating my own game never worked either, no one joined. Call me crazy, but I think that a major prerequisite for releasing a demo would be to make sure it's playable.

with all the positive news regarding Lost Planet, surely capcom will sell lots of them. First you get an old lame port, then the demo that was made to convinve you to buy it doesnt even work. Great job!

The only thing that this game is good for is that it has heart pumping action in multi player all people, wemen, children and folks around the world play. It reaches many demgraphics. Its hiden tactical gameplay and team work forcing action was and is still almost unmatched. Sure more adult hardcore gamers like COD4 etc but this game is clasic and is the oldest game I own, I'll never get rid of it.

I do agree the Japanese will love it they're the only people really still playing it non casually.

THEY are right its Capcom, if you bothered to check out the FACTS before slamming them, from the lips of CAPCOM:

The multiplayer demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is temporarily being removed from the PlayStation Network in order to address issues that have come to light. We will be working overtime to correct the issue and expect to upload a new version to the PlayStation Network as soon as possible that accurately reflects the incredible online features of the game. For those of you who have already downloaded the demo, the servers are being taken down until the new version is ready to go. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and your interest in Lost Planet! Keep an eye out here for more info…

had a problem trying to play it this morning it would not connect i kept trying and trying and then when i did get on it it was so laggy and sluggish, i was actually thinking of picking up this game but now those chances have fallen dramatically unless Capcom fixes this demo, or at least releases a single player demo so i can actually get to play the damn thing

The multiplayer demo for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition is temporarily being removed from the PlayStation Network in order to address issues that have come to light. We will be working overtime to correct the issue and expect to upload a new version to the PlayStation Network as soon as possible that accurately reflects the incredible online features of the game. For those of you who have already downloaded the demo, the servers are being taken down until the new version is ready to go. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and your interest in Lost Planet! Keep an eye out here for more info…

...then a bunch of Sonytards would be crucifying it saying how worthless and defective the service is. See, nothing works perfectly all of the time. At least Live had an excuse for going down - it's more popular than MS realized.

What you dont realize is that because of the design of the 360 the system itself acts as the server, the game companies dont set up servers. This is different with the ps3, the developer is given the freedom to set up their own servers or use p2p setups for their servers. Now regardles of these facts the PSN has nothing to do with this game if you can still be logged on to psn and the game fails to function then its clearly the devs server that is the problem. Besides they even admitted it was their own fault.

Your comment generalized sony fans and put a stereotype on us and thats not cool, Microsoft new damn well that with more consoles comes greater demand and all servers are set up with expansion in mind. Microsoft had no excuse for the crash of live and you know it. Its time people stop giving microsoft a free pass on their f*ck ups. Ohh and the reason we call XBL live out is because I dont know how many times I hear 360 fans saying "yea so we pay but you get what you pay for, XBL owns psn hands down" but as soon as the service crashes or something happens they're quick on the trigger making excuses for microsoft and trying to wipe the egg of their face. Its ironic that ms make so much revenue off of their subscriptions to xbl but they cant create enough bandwith to handle heavy loads and knowing that christmas is the busy season for video games. It just shows you how little they actually care until their attitude bites them in the ass..

That's why I said "a bunch of" and not all. Sorry if you feel stereotyped. Stereotypes aren't true for everyone, but they exist for a reason. My comment is true. If this had happened on Live, no matter whose fault, a bunch of Sonytards would crucify it.

As far as the new wave of customers over the Christmas season, maybe they thought they had enough bandwidth. I'm sure they added some before the holidays. Not everything that goes wrong is their fault.